There are few supplementary navigation system. Below images will help to quickly identify them. These also help users to decide, act and complete their journey on a product or service.

Presentation
What are the factors which contribute in design to make it effective?

The very first factor is “Visual Processing”. For example:

What is above mentioned drawing? One will quickly say a “circle” and no one will say “A curved line with every point in equal distance from center and each other” not even a designer. This is how normal user see a design. It’s the metaphor or real world connection which help them to relate with the system.

Second factor is “User’s attention”.
Guiding user’s attention can result in a more successful design. So how to design for user attention?

Research shows we need to attend few key visual elements to design for visual impact:Size

Shape

Contrast

Intensity

Faces

Third factor is “Layout”.
Good design consist not only good content but it also have to be well structured. The information should be hierarchical. Design structure should also maintain consistency.

Design with Grid
Grid layouts helps you to organize the design templates and make consistency.

Screen size and resolution
You must determine:

Target Resolutions

Size and Aspect Ratio

Is your design is the primary application?

Multi resolution considertaion, Orientation consideration

Clutter V/S Density

We have structred our design but what about aesthetic aspect. Designers rely on color wheel to make the fundamental choices of colors. There are some existing branding guidelines as well when we start designing something. Good use of negative space also helps to define the attention points/heat area.

There are couple of more suggestion to improve the design are:

Avoid using “ALL CAPS” as much as possile as “ALL CAPS” reduce the readability by 20%.

Categorize your heading and content.

Content and Action should be well defined.

We have discussed 2 pillars of design (Navigation and Presentation) so far. You can learn more about the other 2 pillars of design namely, “Content” and “Interaction” in “4 Pillars of Design – part II”

Quamar is a UI Designer and Product Creator from the cozy streets of Bihar. He has eight years of work experience in various UI/UX Design. His passion is to explore the new design trends, technology updates and write blogs in spare time. He loves to travel & explore various culture, play cricket and spend time with his family.